Trump disavows alt-right, says adviser Bannon is not racist
Either Rep. Comstock supports (and holds) Bannon’s (and so Trump’s and Pence’s) deplorable opinions and attitudes and so remains silent or Rep. Comstock will take a stand for all her constituents and denounce Steve Bannon and call on Trump to remove him as his chief White House strategist and keep Bannon from any office and position in his administration.
If you can stomach it.https://t.co/uZs8CHkE7x – (((Paul Cohen))) (@Paul_E_Cohen) November 21, 2016 They also frowned against Trump trying to reconcile with traditional media outlets, particularly objecting to the Manhattan billionaire having an on-the-record meeting with the New York Times on Tuesday.
On Nov. 19, the alt-right National Policy Institute gathered in Washington, D.C., to celebrate Trump’s victory Nov. 8. After researching and reading up on the movement, it is simple to understand what it actually is – a rebranding of white nationalism. SPLC adds that “racist ideas, anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant ideas — all key tenets making up [this] emerging racist ideology”. After all, as executive chairman of Breitbart News, he bragged that the website was a platform for the “alt-right”, the extremist alternative to mainstream conservatism. Spencer then suggested his conference, which featured brilliant minds like washed-up reality TV star Tila Tequila, was tailored to a smaller, much more intellectual audience.
“It is a great thing that we can get along with not only Russian Federation but that we get along with other countries”, Trump told the Times on Tuesday. “His alt-right, anti-Semitic & misogynistic views don’t belong in WH”.
Shortly after video of the incident emerged, Trump transition spokesman Bryan Lanza issued a statement condemning the alt-right. They are extremists who will go to nothing to see what they believe to be an ideal America.
During the first presidential debate this year, Spencer tweeted, “Women should never be allowed to make foreign policy”.
Asked about the far-right, ethno-nationalist movement that has celebrated Trump’s win, the president-elect said: “I don’t want to energize the group, and I disavow the group”.
The president-elect also incurred sharp condemnation when he named Michael Flynn as his national security adviser, a retired lieutenant general who was forced out of the Defense Department in 2014. He even went as far as to claim that if Trump and company follow through with their plan of action, they’ll be able to secure almost half of the Black vote.
He said “a lot of people are coming to” Bannon’s defense, referring to the aggressive pushback the campaign has launched at critics of Bannon, who has earned the support of some Jewish groups on the right, including the Zionist Organization of America and the Republican Jewish Coalition.
He continues to defend Bannon, whose rise has sparked outrage from both Democrats and Republicans.
On Nov. 22, Trump addressed the controversy over Bannon during a sit-down with The New York Times.
Bannon said the political attacks against him and Breitbart News are “just nonsense”.
Comparing feminism to cancer, of course, is the kind of content created to generate lucrative hate-clicks.
“That’s because Yiannpoulos” thesis is that what the alt right does is all in good fun, sophisticated trolling for a noble cause. Neither is the group’s apparent discomfort with it. “He isn’t our ‘man on a white horse”. Now is the time for praying for one another, with one another – for our leaders, for those, perhaps, we aren’t particularly fond of politically or otherwise. In fact, they still do. Dozens of reporters attended his annual white nationalist confab in Washington over the weekend, which he ended by shouting, “Hail the people!”